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Do you realize that when I get back from this trip two years from now I am going to be getting more in royalties from children’s books than I will in salary for being a space scientist?

— Robert L. Forward Dragon's Egg (1980)

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They used their intelligence to control things around them, instead of letting nature and the strong-muscled have their way.

Dragon's Egg (1980)

If the computer had been a human, its eyebrows would have raised.

Dragon's Egg (1980)

An animal doesn’t need to develop curiosity and intelligence if it has no problems that need solving.

Dragon's Egg (1980)

They are signaling to us with the neutron star equivalent of America Indian smoke signals!

Dragon's Egg (1980)

His eye-stubs reached out toward the Eyes in an attempt to copulate with the stars.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
For lovers love the western star.

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Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

Arthur Koestler The Act of Creation (1964)

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